KAMMEN

Three artists equally devoted to the artistic act of creation, expressing themselves with their own visual language, founded the group KAMMEN thirty years ago. Founders of the group were Anto Kajinic, Mirko Maric and Edin Numankadic, artists of different, but complementary sensibilities. The first time they exhibited as a group was in 1987 in Art Gallery Zenica (Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina). On that occasion, in the exhibition catalogue Zvonko Makovi6 wrote: 'Far from any pathos, these works should be observed with clear eye. They do not appeal to any normative and aesthetic consciousness. To the contrary, aesthetic perception or subjection to convention /: norms / these artists neither accept nor deny. Such definitions are excluded from their circle, or more precisely, they do not interfere with their system of expression.' Thirty years later, despite all the research and the different paths of artistic development, the same can still be said. The exhibition in the National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina presents Kajinic's world of whitness, Maric's concerns for society and Numankadic's intimate palette.